To celebrate last week's series of declarations of 2017 vintage port (we'll publish tasting notes on as many as possible at the end of next month when the most important wines are presented in London), we report on a particularly Portuguese port house. This account of another is also published today.
Just before Christmas I had the enormous pleasure of tasting a range of vintage ports, from 1847(!) to 2016 from a very particular shipper. Ferreira is a hugely famous name in the Douro, not least because of its intimate connection with one of my wine heroes, or heroines, Dona Antónía Adelaide Ferreira (pictured)...